How the Other Half Lives

by Riis, Jacob A.; Sante, Luc

• ISBN13: 9780140436792
• ISBN10: 0140436790
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

This famous journalistic record of the filth and degradation of New York's slums at the turn of the century is a classic in social thought and of early American photography. Over 100& photographs.

Author Biography

Luc Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College. His books include Low Life, Evidence, and The Factory of Facts.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii	(2)
Introduction	ix	(14)
Luc Sante
Suggestions for Further Reading	xxiii	(4)
A Note on the Text	xxvii
How the Other Half Lives	1	(218)
Preface	3	(2)
Introduction	5	(4)
1 Genesis of the Tenement	9	(8)
2 The Awakening	17	(4)
3 The Mixed Crowd	21	(5)
4 The Down Town Back-alleys	26	(15)
5 The Italian in New York	41	(5)
6 The Bend	46	(12)
7 A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives	58	(8)
8 The Cheap Lodging-houses	66	(7)
9 Chinatown	73	(9)
10 Jewtown	82	(10)
11 The Sweaters of Jewtown	92	(11)
12 The Bohemians--Tenement-house Cigarmaking	103	(9)
13 The Color Line in New York	112	(8)
14 The Common Herd	120	(15)
15 The Problem of the Children	135	(6)
16 Waifs of the City's Slums	141	(6)
17 The Street Arab	147	(12)
18 The Reign of Rum	159	(5)
19 The Harvest of Tares	164	(12)
20 The Working Girls of New York	176	(7)
21 Pauperism in the Tenements	183	(8)
22 The Wrecks and the Waste	191	(5)
23 The Man with the Knife	196	(3)
24 What Has Been Done	199	(10)
25 How the Case Stands	209	(10)
Appendix	219	(6)
Explanatory Notes	225